Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes

This kinda solution wont work in India. People will use relatives phones to vote for the route and get the route approved, but in reality there will be only one passenger

Then votes should cost some money for the winners.

Which would punish low income folks for no real reason.

How? If you want to use the service you pay anyway, right? If you want a particular route you should have some stake in it. (Low-income / low-wealth / poor people ought to get vouchers and/or welfare payments - preferably as a gradual negative income tax.)

I can’t imagine any transit vehicle in india with just one passenger

How about we give the low income folks money every month rather than crippling the resource-allocation system everyone relies on?

I was just making a argument. While deciding a route based on votes, it may show 20-30 people(which can be faked).

But in reality this would be used by 1 person. This route can then be cancelled if the service provider wants due to lower number of passenger(low cash flow).

That makes sense. If it has something similar to a subscription or pre-paid model, then the chances for these kinda scams would get low.

How will that help ?